Great Lakes Bioneers-Cleveland 2008 will focus on water and the Great Lakes with opening addresses by David Beach, director, GreenCityBlueLake and Jeffrey Reutter, director, OSU Stone Laboratory. They will talk about Lake Erie: Crisis and Opportunity followed by several workshops and tours on the same theme. The following 'water themed' films will also screen at Bioneers:

• Thirst on Friday at 10:45 am
• Return of the Cuyahoga on Saturday at 10:45
• Walking the River on Sunday at 9:15.

"Mysteries of the Great Lakes" is now showing at the Great Lakes Science Center Omnimax Theater.

WVIZ will air the following line up of films touching on water themes in October:

• "Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure" on Wednesday, October 1 at 9 pm. A ninety-minute documentary that tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: water, wastewater, and storm water. These systems - some in the ground for more than 100 years - provide a critical public health function and are essential for economic development and growth.
• "P.O.V.: Up the Yangtze" on Saturday, October 11 at 11 p.m. Nearing completion, China ’s massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic locales will be submerged, and two million people will lose their homes and livelihoods.
• “The Return of the Cuyahoga” on Thursday, October 16 10 p.m. (Re-broadcast, originally aired April 2008). On June 22, 1969, the polluted Cuyahoga River caught fire. The fire started a chain of events that hasn’t stopped yet. The Cuyahoga is America ’s best example yet of a watery success story. The dead river came clean - and back to life again.
• "Flow: For the Love of Water" Friday, Oct. 17 at 7:15 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 18 at 10 p.m. at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque.
• "Walking the River" on Thursday, November 6, 10 p.m.This film is a journey up the Cuyahoga River to explore northeast Ohioans’ relationship to the river. Three local filmmakers walk the river from Lake Erie to the headwaters. The documentary seeks to examine how people live within the Cuyahoga watershed today, and how a river might represent them.